Safeguarding Financial Services in 2026: Strategies to Stay Ahead of an Evolving Threat Landscape

The financial services sector remains among the most targeted by cyber adversaries — not just for financial gain, but to disrupt operations, compromise sensitive customer data, and undermine trust.

As attackers deploy more sophisticated techniques and regulatory demands continue to intensify, financial institutions must proactively evolve their cybersecurity strategies.

In this session, eSentire Principal Solutions Architect, Kerry Albert, will discuss:

• The top cyber threats observed by eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) — a team with a track record of safeguarding more than 250,000 employees across over 400 financial services clients.
• Key takeaways from the most active attack vectors, emerging threat patterns, and the recent rise in browser-based and email-based initial access vectors observed across our financial services customer base.
• Actionable guidance on how to build detection and response capabilities that are not just reactive, but intelligence-led, combining automation, custom detection rules, and expert threat hunting.
• How leading financial firms can strengthen cyber resilience, accelerate detection and response, and maintain robust security without stifling innovation.
• How TRU identified insider threats at several financial services customers that could have resulted in fake remote IT worker hires.

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how your organization in the financial services sector can protect itself before attacks are deployed.